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‘ILOVEYOU’-author in the Philippines?

‘ILOVEYOU’ worm tries to load data from the Internet. The provider of the site from which the files are requested, sits on the Philippines, Quezon City. The webmaster did have that site taken down after the connection was clear with the virus. Nevertheless, they say: “We were used as a gateway,” the system administrator Ronald Eociario by Sky Internet.

Eociario said his company had traced the track using the log files to another Philippine provider. “But we are not sure if this is the original host,” the system administrator.

In its original form, not just the worm sends itself to all email addresses it finds in the address book and change certain file types in Visual Basic scripts. It sends the software that tries to pick up the worm from the Sky web site passwords to an e-mail address in the Philippines. The WIN-BUGSFIX.exe however offline since yesterday.

Sky Internet Traffic noticed the first record highs against 16-clock local time on Thursday. Obviously, the first wave of infected computers at this time trying to get her to “update”.

Security experts have discovered the source of ICSA.net the sentence “I hate to go to school.” They say the worm would be made by a Filipino teenager named “spider” into the net.

ZDNet has prepared a report to the ILOVEYOU worm. Here you will find help and further news.

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